VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-1584

medium
Published 2012-09-06 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Integer overflow in the mid function in toolkit/tbytevector.cpp in TagLib 1.7 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file header field in a media file, which triggers a large memory allocation.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.7.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.7.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.7.1-1
debian debiansidfixed1.7.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.7.1-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
scott_wheelertaglib{"endIncluding":"1.7"}
scott_wheelertaglib1.0
scott_wheelertaglib1.1
scott_wheelertaglib1.2
scott_wheelertaglib1.3
scott_wheelertaglib1.3.1
scott_wheelertaglib1.4
scott_wheelertaglib1.5
scott_wheelertaglib1.6
scott_wheelertaglib1.6.1
scott_wheelertaglib1.6.2
scott_wheelertaglib1.6.3

References

CWEs

CWE-189

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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